Paleozoic to early Cenozoic cooling and exhumation of the basement underlying the eastern Puna plateau margin prior to plateau growth

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Insel, N ^a,b   Grove, M ^c   Haschke, M ^d   Barnes, J B ^e   Schmitt, A K ^f   Strecker, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Umwelt und Ingenieurtechnik GmbH Dresden ^*  (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; LEAD; SUBSIDENCE;

ACCELERATED COOLING; ARGENTINA; BASEMENT ROCKS; CENOZOIC; CENOZOIC COOLING; COOLING HISTORY; COOLING RATES; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; DEVONIANS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; JURASSIC; K-FELDSPAR; LATE CRETACEOUS; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; LOW TEMPERATURES; MESOZOIC; PALEOCENE; PALEOZOIC; PLUTONIC ROCKS; RAPID COOLING; THERMAL BOUNDARY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CENOZOIC; COOLING; CRUSTAL THINNING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCENE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALEOZOIC; PLATEAU; PLUTON; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ARGENTINA; PUNA;

EID: 84871606425     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012TC003168     Document Type: Article

References (138)

1. Alasino, P. H., J. A. Dahlquist, R. J. Pankhurst, C. Galindo, C. Casquet, C. W. Rapela, M. A. Larrovere, and C. M. Fanning (2012), Early Carboniferous sub-to mid-alkaline magmatism in the Eastern Sierras Pam-peanas, NW Argentina: A record of crustal growth by the incorporation of mantle-derived material in an extensional setting, Gondwana Res., 22, 992-1008, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2011.12.011.
2. Allmendinger, R. W. (1986), Tectonic development, southeastern border of the Puna plateau, northwestern Argentine Andes, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 97(9), 1070-1082, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1986)972.0. CO;2.
3. Allmendinger, R. W., V. A. Ramos, T. E. Jordan, M. Palma, and B. L. Isacks (1983), Paleogeography and Andean structural geometry, northwest Argentina, Tectonics, 2(1), 1-16, doi:10.1029/TC002i001p00001.
4. Allmendinger, R. W., M. R. Strecker, J. E. Eremchuk, and P. Francis (1989), Neotectonic deformation of the southern Puna plateau, northwestern Argentina, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 2, 111-130, doi:10.1016/0895-9811(89)90040- 0.
5. Allmendinger, R. W., T. E. Jordan, S. M. Kay, and B. L. Isacks (1997), The evolution of the Altiplano-Puna plateau of the central Andes, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 25, 139-174, doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.25.1.139.
6. Alonso, R., J. G. Viramonte, and R. Gutierrez (1985), Puna Austral-Bases para el subprovincialismo gelógico de la Puna Argentina, paper presented at IX Congreso Geologico Argentino, Asoc. Geol. Argent., Buenos Aires.
7. Andriessen, P. A. M., and K. J. Reutter (1994), K-Ar and fission track mineral age determination of igneous rocks related to multiple magmatic arc systems along the 23° S latitude of Chile and NW Argentina, in Tectonics of the Southern Central Andes, edited by K. J. Reutter, E. Scheuber, and P. J. Wigger, pp. 141-153, Springer, Berlin.
8. Arriagada, C, P. R. Cobbold, and P. Roperch (2006), Salar de Atacama basin: A record of compressional tectonics in the central Andes since the mid-Cretaceous, Tectonics, 25, TC1008, doi:10.1029/2004TC001770.
9. Babeyko, A. Y., and S. V. Sobolev (2005), Quantifying different modes of the late Cenozoic shortening in the central Andes, Geology, 33(8), 621-624, doi:10.1130/G21126.1. (Pubitemid 41070701)
10. Bahlburg, H. (1990), The Ordovician Basin in the Puna of NW Argentina and N Chile: Geodynamic Evolution From Back-Arc to Foreland Basin, Geotekt. Forsch., vol. 75, 107 pp., Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, Germany.
11. Bahlburg, H., and K. P. Furlong (1996), Lithospheric modeling of the Ordovician foreland basin in the Puna of northwestern Argentina: On the influence of arc loading on foreland basin formation, Tectonophy-sics, 259, 245-258, doi:10.1016/0040-1951(95)00129-8.
12. Bahlburg, H., and F. Herve (1997), Geodynamic evolution and tectonos-tratigraphic terranes of northwestern Argentina and northern Chile, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 109(7), 869-884, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1997) 1092.3.CO;2.
13. Becchio, R., F. Lucassen, S. Kaseman, G. Franz, and J. Viramonte (1999), Geoquímica y sistemática isotópica de rocas metamórficas del Paleozoic inferior. Noroeste de Argentina y Norte de Chile (21°-27°S), Acta Geol. Hisp., 34, 273-299. (Pubitemid 32265545)
14. Bianucci, H., J. F. Homovc, and O. M. Acevedo (1982), Inversion tecto-nica y plegamientos resultantes en la comarca Puesto Guardian-Dos Puntitas, Departamento de Oran, Provincia de Salta, paper presented at 1st Congreso Nacional de Hidrocarburos, Petroleo y Gas, Explora-cion, Inst. Argent. Petrol., Buenos Aires.
15. Bosio, P. P., J. Powell, C. del Papa, and F. Hongn (2009), Middle Eocene deformation-sedimentation in the Luracatao Valley: Tracking the beginning of the foreland basin of northwestern Argentina, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 28, 142-154, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2009.06.002.
16. Büttner, S. H., J. Glodny, F. Lucassen, K. Wemmer, S. Erdmann, R. Handler, and G. Franz (2005), Ordovician metamorphism and plu-tonism in the Sierra de Quilmes metamorphic complex: Implications for the tectonic setting of the northern Sierras Pampeanas (NW Argentina), Lithos, 83(1-2), 143-181, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2005.01.006. (Pubitemid 40841328)
17. Carrapa, B., and P. G. DeCelles (2008), Eocene exhumation and basin development in the Puna of northwestern Argentina, Tectonics, 27, TC1015, doi:10.1029/2007TC002127.
18. Carrapa, B., D. Adelmann, G. E. Hilley, E. Mortimer, E. R. Sobel, and M. R. Strecker (2005), Oligocene range uplift and development of plateau morphology in the southern central Andes, Tectonics, 24, TC4011, doi:10.1029/2004TC001762. (Pubitemid 41594432)
19. Carrapa, B., M. R. Strecker, and E. R. Sobel (2006), Cenozoic orogenic growth in the central Andes: Evidence from sedimentary rock provenance and apatite fission track thermochronology in the Fiambala Basin, southernmost Puna plateau margin (NW Argentina), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 247, 82-100, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.010. (Pubitemid 43947808)
20. Carrapa, B., P. G. Decelles, P. W. Reiners, G. Gehrels, and A. Biswas (2008), Exhumation and basin evolution of the Puna plateau of NW Argentina revealed by a multi geo-thermochronological approach, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72(12), A139.
21. Carrapa, B., P. G. DeCelles, P. W. Reiners, G. E. Gehrels, and M. Sudo (2009), Apatite triple dating and white mica Ar/Ar thermochronology of syntectonic detritus in the central Andes: A multiphase tectonothermal history, Geology, 37(5), 407-410, doi:10.1130/G25698A.1.
22. Carrera, N., and J. A. Muñoz (2008), Thrusting evolution in the southern Cordillera Oriental (northern Argentine Andes): Constraints from growth strata, Tectonophysics, 459, 107-122, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.068.
23. Carrera, N., J. A. Muñoz, F. Sàbat, R. Mon, and E. Roca (2006), The role of inversion tectonics in the structure of the Cordillera Oriental (NW Argentinean Andes), J. Struct. Geol, 28, 1921-1932, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2006.07.006. (Pubitemid 44734637)
24. Casquet, C, R. J. Pankhurst, C. W. Rapela, C. Galindo, J. Dahlquist, E. Baldo, J. Saavedra, J. M. Gonzalez Casado, and C. M. Fanning (2005), Grenvillian massif-type anorthosites in the Sierras Pampeanas, J. Geol. Soc, 162(1), 9-12, doi:10.1144/0016-764904-100. (Pubitemid 40198736)
25. Cladouhos, T. T., R. W. Allmendinger, B. Coira, and E. Farrar (1994), Late Cenozoic deformation in the central Andes: Fault kinematics from the northern Puna, northwestern Argentina and southwestern Bolivia, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 7, 209-228, doi:10.1016/0895-9811(94)90008-6. (Pubitemid 24428843)
26. Coira, B., J. Davidson, C. Mpodozis, and V. Ramos (1982), Tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Andes of northern Argentina and Chile, in Earth Sci. Rev., 18, 303-332, doi:10.1016/0012-8252(82)90042-3.
27. Coira, B., S. M. Kay, and J. Viramonte (1993), Upper Cenozoic magmatic evolution of the Argentine Puna: A model for changing subduction geometry, Int. Geol. Rev., 35, 677-720, doi:10.1080/00206819309465552. (Pubitemid 24421156)
28. Coira, B., S. M. Kay, B. Perez, B. Woll, M. Hanning, and P. Flores (1999), Magmatic sources and tectonic setting of Gondwana margin Ordovician magmas, northern Puna of Argentina and Chile, Spec. Pap. Geol. Soc. Am., 336, 145-170.
29. Coira, B., M. Koukharsky, S. Ribeiro Guevara, and C. E. Cisterna (2009a), Puna (Argentina) and northern Chile Ordovician basic magmatism: A contribution to the tectonic setting, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 27, 24-35, doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2008.10.002.
30. Coira, B., A. Kirschbaum, F. Hongn, B. Perez, and N. Menegatti (2009b), Basic magmatism in northeastern Puna, Argentina: Chemical composition and tectonic setting in the Ordovician back-arc, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 28, 374-382, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2009.04.007.
31. Coughlin, T. J., P. B. O'Sullivan, B. P. Kohn, and R. J. Holcombe (1998), Apatite fission-track thermochronology of the Sierras Pampeanas, central western Argentina: Implications for the mechanism of plateau uplift in the Andes, Geology, 26(11), 999-1002, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1998) 0262.3.CO;2. (Pubitemid 29089594)
32. Coutand, I., P. Gautier, P. R. Cobbold, M. de Urreiztieta, A. Chauvin, D. Gapais, E. A. Rossello, and O. Lopez-Gammundi (2001), Style and history of Andean deformation, Puna plateau, northwestern Argentina, Tectonics, 20(2), 210-234, doi:10.1029/2000TC900031. (Pubitemid 32575712)
33. Coutand, I., B. Carrapa, A. Deeken, A. K. Schmitt, E. R. Sobel, and M. R. Strecker (2006), Propagation of orographic barriers along an active range front; insights from sandstone petrography and detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology in the intramontane Angastaco Basin, NW Argentina, Basin Res., 18(1), 1-26, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00283.x.
34. Cristallini, E., A. H. Cominguez, and V. A. Ramos (1997), Deep structure of the Metan-Guachipas region; tectonic inversion in northwestern Argentina, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 10, 403-421, doi:10.1016/S0895-9811(97)00026-6. (Pubitemid 28431354)
35. Cristiani, C, M. Matteini, R. Mazzuoli, R. Omarini, and I. M. Villa (2005), Petrology of late Jurassic-early Cretaceous Tusaquillas and Abra Laite-Aguilar plutonic complexes (central Andes, 23°05'S-66°05'W): A comparison with rift-related magmatism of NW Argentina and E Bolvia, in Mesozoic to Cenozoic Alkaline Magmatism in the Brazilian Platform, edited by P. Comin-Chiaramonti, pp. 213-240, Edusp/Fapesp, São Paulo.
36. Dahlquist, J. A., R. J. Pankhurst, C. W. Rapela, C. Casquet, C. M. Fanning, P. H. Alasino, and M. Baez (2006), The San Blas Pluton: An example of Carboniferous plutonism in the Sierra Pampeanas, Argentina, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 20, 341-350, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2005.08.006. (Pubitemid 46137481)
37. Dahlquist, J. A., P. H. Alasino, G. N. Eby, C. Galindo, and C. Casquet (2010), Fault controlled Carboniferous A-type magmatism in the proto-Andean foreland (Sierra Pampeanas, Argentina): Geochemical constraints and petrogenesis, Lithos, 115, 65-81, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.11.006.
38. Damm, K. W., S. Pichowiak, R. S. Harmon, W. Todt, S. Kelley, R. Omarini, and H. Niemeyer (1990), Pre-Mesozoic evolution of the central Andes: The basement revisited, Spec. Pap. Geol. Soc. Am., 241, 101-126.
39. Decelles, P. G., B. Carrapa, B. K. Horton, and G. E. Gehrels (2011), Cenozoic foreland basin system in the central Andes of northwestern Argentina: Implications for Andean geodynamics and modes of deformation, Tectonics, 30, TC6013, doi:10.1029/2011TC002948.
40. Deeken, A., E. R. Sobel, M. R. Haschke, and U. Riller (2005), Age of initiation and growth pattern of the Puna plateau, NW-Argentina, constrained by AFT thermochtonology, paper presented at 19th Colloquium on Latin American Geosciences, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, 18-20 April.
41. Deeken, A, E. R. Sobel, I. Coutand, M. Haschke, U. Riller, and M. R. Strecker (2006), Development of the southern Eastern Cordillera, NW Argentina, constrained by apatite fission track thermochronology: From early Cretaceous extension to middle Miocene shortening, Tectonics, 25, TC6003, doi:10.1029/2005TC001894. (Pubitemid 46760981)
42. Ege, H., E. R. Sobel, E. Scheuber, and V. Jacobshagen (2007), Exhumation history of the southern Altiplano plateau (southern Bolivia) constrained by apatite fission-track thermochronology, Tectonics, 26, TC1004, doi:10.1029/2005TC001869. (Pubitemid 46851993)
43. Elger, K., O. Oncken, and J. Glodny (2005), Plateau-style accumulation of deformation: Southern Altiplano, Tectonics, 24, TC4020, doi:10.1029/ 2004TC001675. (Pubitemid 41594433)
44. Fielding, E., B. Isacks, M. Barazangi, and C. Duncan (1994), How flat is Tibet, Geology, 22(2), 163-167, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022 2.3.CO;2.
45. Galliski, M. A., and J. G. Viramonte (1988), The Cretaceous paleorift in northwestern Argentina: A petrologic approach, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 1, 329-342, doi:10.1016/0895-9811(88)90021-1.
46. Grier, M. E., J. A. Salfity, and R. W. Allmendinger (1991), Andean reactivation of the Cretaceous Salta Rift, northwestern Argentina, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 4, 351-372, doi:10.1016/0895-9811(91)90007-8.
47. Grissom, G. C, S. M. Debari, and L. W. Snee (1998), Geology of the Sierra de Fiambalá, northwestern Argentina: Implications for Early Palaeozoic Andean tectonics, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ, 142, 297-323, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998. 142.01.15. (Pubitemid 29520323)
48. Grosse, P., F. Soellner, M. A. Báez, A. J. Toselli, J. N. Rossi, and J. D. de la Rosa (2009), Lower Carboniferous post-orogenic granites in central-eastern Sierra de Velasco, Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: U-Pb monza-nite geochronology, geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotopes, Int. J. Earth Sci., 98, 1001-1025, doi:10.1007/s00531-007-0297-5.
49. Halpern, M., and C. O. Latorre (1973), Estudio geochronologico inicial de rocas del noroeste de la Republica Argentina, Asoc. Geol. Argent. Rev., 28(2), 195-205.
50. Harrison, T. M., M. T. Heizler, and O. M. Lovera (1993), In vacuo crushing experiments and K-feldspar thermochronometry, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 117(1-2), 169-180, doi:10.1016/0012-821X(93)90124-R. (Pubitemid 23392812)
51. Harrison, T. M., M. T. Heizler, O. M. Lovera, W. Chen, and M. Grove (1994), A chlorine disinfectant for excess argon released from K-feldspar during step heating, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 123(1-3), 95-104, doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(94)90260-7. (Pubitemid 24428433)
52. Harrison, T. M., Y. An, M. Grove, O. M. Lovera, F. J. Ryerson, and X. Zhou (2000), The Zedong Window: A record of superposed Tertiary convergence in southeastern Tibet, J. Geophys. Res., 105(B8), 19,211-19,230, doi:10.1029/2000JB900078.
53. Harrison, T. M., M. Grove, O. M. Lovera, and P. K. Zeitler (2005), Continuous thermal histories from inversion of closure profiles, Rev. Mineral. Geochem., 58(1), 389-409, doi:10.2138/rmg.2005.58.15. (Pubitemid 41742438)
54. Hatzfeld, D., and P. Molnar (2010), Comparisons of the kinematics and deep structures of the Zagros and Himalaya and of the Iranian and Tibetan Plateaus and geodynamic implications, Rev. Geophys., 48, RG2005, 10.1029/2009RG000304.
55. Henry, S. G., and H. N. Pollack (1988), Terrestrial heat flow above the Andean Subduction Zone in Bolivia and Peru, J. Geophys. Res., 93(B12), 15,153-15,162, doi:10.1029/JB093iB12p15153.
56. Hilley, G. E., P. M. Blisniuk, and M. R. Strecker (2005), Mechanics and erosion of basement-cored uplift provinces, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B12409, doi:10.1029/2005JB003704. (Pubitemid 43159843)
57. Höckenreiner, M., F. Soellner, and H. Miller (2003), Dating the TIPA shear zone: An early Devonian terrane boundary between the Famatian and Pampean systems (NW Argentina), J. South Am. Earth Sci, 16, 45-66, doi:10.1016/S0895- 9811(03)00018-X. (Pubitemid 36844867)
58. Hongn, F. D., and R. Mon (1999), La deformación ordovícica en el borde oriental de la Puna, in Geología del Noroeste Argentino, Relatorio XIV Congreso Geológico Argentino, vol. 1, edited by G. González Bonorino et al., pp. 212-216, Univ. Nac. de Salta, Salta, Argentina.
59. Hongn, F. D., and U. Riller (2007), Tectonic evolution of the western margin of Gondwana inferred from syntectonic emplacement of Paleozoic granitoid plutons in northwest Argentina, J. Geol, 115(2), 163-180, doi:10.1086/510644. (Pubitemid 46416545)
60. Hongn, F., and R. E. Seggiaro (2001), Hoja geológica 2566-III, Cachi, Bol. 248, scale 1:250,000, Serv. Geol. Minero Argent., Buenos Aires.
61. Hongn, F., A. Aranguren, J. M. Tubia, and R. Mon (1999), Estructura, fábrica magnética y emplazamiento de los granitos de Brealito y La Paya, basamento del valle Calchaquí, Saltam Argentina, Acta Geol. Hisp., 34, 301-317. (Pubitemid 32265546)
62. Hongn, F., C. del Papa, J. Powell, I. Petrinovic, R. Mon, and V. Deraco (2007), Middle Eocene deformation and sedimentation in the Puna-Eastern Cordillera transition (23°-26°S): Control by preexisting heterogeneities on the pattern of initial Andean shortening, Geology, 35(3), 271-274, doi:10.1130/G23189A.1. (Pubitemid 46442144)
63. Hongn, F. D., J. M. Tubia, A. Aranguren, N. Vegas, R. Mon, and G. R. Dunning (2010), Magmatism coeval with lower Paleozoic shelf basins in NW-Argentina (Tastil batholith): Constraints on current stratigraphic and tectonic interpretations, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 29, 289-305, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2009.07.008.
64. Isacks, B. L. (1988), Uplift of the central Andean Plateau and bending of the Bolivian Orocline, J. Geophys. Res., 93(B4), 3211-3231, doi:10.1029/JB093iB04p03211.
65. Jordan, T. E., and R. N. Alonso (1987), Cenozoic stratigraphy and basin tectonics of the Andes Mountains, 20°-28° south latitude, AAPG Bull, 71(1), 49-64.
66. Juez-Larré, J., N. Kukowski, T. J. Dunai, A. J. Hartley, and P. A. M. Andriessen (2010), Thermal and exhumation history of the Coastal Cordillera arc of northern Chile revealed by thermochronological dating, Tectonophysics, 495, 48-66, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2010.06.018.
67. Kay, S. M., and B. L. Coira (2009), Shallowing and steepening subduction zones, continental lithospheric loss, magmatism, and crustal flow under the central Andean Altiplano-Puna plateau, Geol. Soc. Am. Mem., 204, 229-259, doi:10.1130/2009.1204(11).
68. Kay, S. M., B. Coira, and J. Viramonte (1994), Young mafic back arc volcanic rocks as indicators of continental lithospheric delamination beneath the Argentine Puna plateau, central Andes, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 24,323-24,339, doi:10.1029/94JB00896.
69. Kay, S. M., B. L. Coira, P. J. Caffe, and C.-H. Chen (2010), Regional chemical diversity, crustal and mantle sources and evolution of central Andean Puna plateau ignimbrites, J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 198, 81-111, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.08.013.
70. Kirschbaum, A., F. Hongn, and N. Menegatti (2006), The Cobres Plutonic Complex, eastern Puna (NW Argentina): Petrological and structural constraints for Lower Paleozoic magmatism, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 21, 252-266, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2006.04.003. (Pubitemid 44391120)
71. Kleine, T., K. Mezger, U. Zimmermann, C. Münker, and H. Bahlburg (2004), Crustal evolution along the Early Ordovician Proto-Andean margin of Gondwana: Trace element and isotope evidence from the Complejo Igneo Pocitos (northwest Argentina), J. Geol., 112, 503-520, doi:10.1086/422663. (Pubitemid 39403783)
72. Kley, J. (1996), Transition from basement-involved to thin-skinned thrusting in the Cordillera Oriental of southern Bolivia, Tectonics, 15, 763-775, doi:10.1029/95TC03868.
73. Kley, J., and C. R. Monaldi (2002), Tectonic inversion in the Santa Barbara System of the central Andean foreland thrust belt, northwestern Argentina, Tectonics, 21(6), 1061, doi:10.1029/2002TC902003.
74. Kley, J., C. R. Monaldi, and J. A. Salfity (1999), Along-strike segmentation of the Andean foreland; causes and consequences, Tectonophysics, 301, 75-94, doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(98)90223-2. (Pubitemid 29412252)
75. Kley, J., E. A. Rossello, C. R. Monaldi, and B. Habighorst (2005), Seismic and field evidence for selective inversion of Cretaceous normal faults, Salta Rift, northwest Argentina, Tectonophysics, 399, 155-172, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.12.020. (Pubitemid 40533959)
76. Koukharsky, M., S. Quenardelle, V. D. Litvak, S. Page, and E. B. Maisonnave (2002), Plutonismo del Ordovicico inferior en el sector norte de la sierra de Macon, provincia de Salta, Asoc. Geol. Argent. Rev., 57(2), 173-181. (Pubitemid 37312294)
77. Kraemer, B., D. Adelmann, M. Alten, W. Schnurr, K. Erpenstein, E. Kiefer, P. van den Bogaard, and K. Gorler (1999), Incorporation of the Paleogene foreland into the Neogene Puna plateau: The Salar de Antofalla area, NW Argentina, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 12, 157-182, doi:10.1016/S0895-9811(99) 00012-7.
78. Linares, E. (1979), Catalogo de edades radiometricas determinadas para la Republica Argentina y catalogode edades radiometricas realizadaspor ingeis y sin publicar, Asoc. Geol. Ar., Pub. Esp. Ser, B6, 32 pp.
79. Llambias, J. K., A. M. Sato, and J. Tomsic (1985), Geologia y caracteristi-cas quimicas del stock terciario del Nevado de Acay y vulcanitas asocia-das, provincia de Salta, Asoc. Geol. Argent. Rev., 40(3-4), 158-175.
80. Lork, A., and H. Bahlburg (1993), Precise U-Pb ages of monazites from the Faja Eruptiva de la Puna Oriental, and the Cordillera Oriental, NW Argentina, in Geología y Recursos Naturales de Mendoza: 12° Congreso Geológico Argentino y 2° Congreso de Exploración de Hidrocarburos, Mendoza, Actas 4, edited by V. A. Ramos, pp. 1-6, La Comisión, Buenos Aires.
81. Lovera, O. M., F. M. Richter, and T. M. Harrison (1989), The Ar/Ar thermochronometry for slowly cooled samples having a distribution of diffusion domain sizes, J. Geophys. Res., 94(B12), 17,917-17,935.
82. Lovera, O. M., M. Grove, T. M. Harrison, and K. I. Mahon (1997), Systematic analysis of K-feldspar Ar/Ar step heating results: I. Significance of activation energy determinations, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 61(15), 3171-3192, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00147-6.
83. Lovera, O. M., M. Grove, and T. M. Harrison (2002), Systematic analysis of K-feldspar Ar/Ar step heating results: II. Relevance of laboratory argon diffusion properties to nature, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66(7), 1237-1255, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00846-8. (Pubitemid 34409451)
84. Lucassen, F., and G. Franz (2005), The early Palaeozoic Orogen in the central Andes: A non-collisional orogen comparable to the Cenozoic high plateau?, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ, 246, 257-273, doi:10.1144/GSL. SP.2005.246.01.09. (Pubitemid 41166512)
85. Lucassen, F., H. G. Wilke, J. Viramonte, R. Becchio, G. Franz, A. Laber, K. Wemmer, and P. Vroon (1996), The Paleozoic basement of the central Andes (18°-26°S). A metamorphic view, paper presented at 3rd International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, Univ. Rennes 1, St. Malo, France
86. Lucassen, F., R. Becchio, H. G. Wilke, M. F. Thirwall, J. Viramonte, G. Franz, and K. Wemmer (2000), Proterozoic-Paleozoic development of the basement of the central Andes (18°-26°S): A mobile belt of the South American craton, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 13, 697-715, doi:10.1016/S0895-9811(00)00057-2. (Pubitemid 32207757)
87. Lucassen, F., R. Harmon, G. Franz, R. L. Romer, R. Becchio, and W. Siebel (2002), Lead evolution of the Pre-Mesozoic crust in the central Andes (18-27°): Progressive homogenisation of Pb, Chem. Geol, 186, 183-197, doi:10.1016/S0009-2541(01)00407-7. (Pubitemid 34763346)
88. Mahon, K. I. (1996), The new "York" regression: Application of an improved statistical method to geochemistry, Int. Geol. Rev., 38(4), 293-303, doi:10.1080/00206819709465336.
89. Maksaev, V. (1990), Metallogeny, geological evolution, and thermochro-nology of the Chilean Andes between latitudes 21° and 26° south, and the origin of the major porphyry copper deposits, PhD thesis, 555 pp., Dalhouse Univ., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
90. Maksaev, V., and M. Zentilli (2000), Fission track thermochronology of the Domeyko Cordillera, northern Chile: Implications for Andean tectonics and porphyry copper metallogenesis, Explor. Min. Geol, 8(1-2), 65-89. (Pubitemid 38154375)
91. Marquillas, R. A., C. del Papa, and I. F. Sabino (2005), Sedimentary aspects and paleoenvironmental evolution of a rift basin; Salta Group, Cretaceous-Paleogene, northwestern Argentina, Int. J. Earth Sci., 94(1), 94-113, doi:10.1007/s00531-004-0443-2. (Pubitemid 40294684)
92. Marrett, R. A., R. W. Allmendinger, R. Alonso, and R. E. Drake (1994), Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Puna plateau and adjacent foreland, northwestern Argentine Andes, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 7, 179-207, doi:10.1016/0895-9811(94)90007-8. (Pubitemid 24428844)
93. Mazzuoli, R., et al. (2008), Miocene magmatism and tectonics of the easternmost sector of the Calama-Olacapato-El Toro fault system in central Andes at ~24°S: Insights into the evolution of the Eastern Cordillera, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 120(11-12), 1493-1517, doi:10.1130/B26109.1.
94. McDougall, I., and T. M. Harrison (1999), Geochronology and Thermochronology by the Ar/3 Ar Method, 269 pp., Oxford Univ. Press, New York,.
95. Méndez, V., A. Navarini, D. Plaza, and V. Viera (1973), Faja eruptiva de la Puna oriental, Actas Jorn. Geol. Argent, 5(4), 89-100.
96. Mirre, J. C. (1974), El granito del Acay, intrusivo de edad terciaria en el ambiente de Puna, Asoc. Geol. Argent. Rev., 29(2), 205-212.
97. Mon, R., and F. Hongn (1991), The structure of the Precambrian and lower Paleozoic basement of the central Andes between 22° and 32°S. Lat, Geol. Rundsch., 80(3), 745-758, doi:10.1007/BF01803699.
98. Mon, R., and J. A. Salfity (1995), Tectonic evolution of the Andes of northern Argentina, AAPGMem., 62, 269-283.
99. Mon, R., C. R. Monaldi, and J. A. Salfity (2005), Curved structures and interference fold patterns associated with lateral ramps in the Eastern Cordillera, central Andes of Argentina, Tectonophysics, 399, 173-179, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.12.021. (Pubitemid 40533960)
100. Mortimer, E., B. Carrapa, I. Coutand, L. Schoenbohm, E. R. Sobel, and J. S. Gomez (2007), Fragmentation of a foreland basin in response to out-of-sequence basement uplifts and structural reactivation: El Cajon-Campo del Arenal basin, NW Argentina, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 119(5-6), 637-653, doi:10.1130/B25884.1. (Pubitemid 46779749)
101. Mpodozis, C, F. Hervé, J. Davidson, and C. González (1983), Los grani-toides de Cerro de Lila, manifestaciones de un episodio intrusivo y termal del Paleozoico inferior en los Andes del N de Chile. Santiago, Chile, Rev. Geol. Chile, 18, 3-14.
102. Mpodozis, C, C. Arriagada, M. Basso, P. Roperch, P. Cobbold, and M. Reich (2005), Late Mesozoic to Paleogene stratigraphy of the Salar de Atacama Basin, Antofagasta, northern Chile: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the central Andes, Tectonophysics, 399, 125-154, doi:10.1016/j.tecto. 2004.12.019. (Pubitemid 40533958)
103. Omarini, R., J. G. Viramonte, U. Cordani, J. A. Salfity, and K. Kawashita (1984), Estudio geocronológico Rb-SR de la Faja Eruptiva de la Puna en el sector de San Antonio de los Cobres, provincia de Salta, paper presented at V Congreso Geológico Argentino, Salta, Argentina.
104. Oncken, O., D. Hindle, J. Kley, K. Elger, P. Victor, and K. Schemmann (2006), Deformation of the central Andean upper plate system: Facts, fiction, and constraints for plateau models, in The Andes: Active Subduction Orogeny, edited by O. Oncken et al., pp. 3-27, Springer, Berlin, doi:10.1007/978-3-540- 48684-81.
105. Otamendi, J. E., L. P. Pinotti, M. A. S. Basei, and A. M. Tibaldi (2010), Evaluation of petrogenetic models for intermediate and silicic plutonic rocks from the Sierra de Valle Fértil-La Huerta, Argentina: Petrologic constraints on the origin of igneous rocks in the Ordovician Famati-nian-Puna paleoarc, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 30, 29-45, doi:10.1016/j. jsames.2010.07.004.
106. Palma, M. A., P. Parica, and V. A. Ramos (1986), El granito Archibarca: Su edad y significado tectónico, provincia de Catamarca, Asoc. Geol. Argent. Rev., 41(3-4), 414-419.
107. Pankhurst, R. J., C. W. Rapela, and C. M. Fanning (2000), Age and origin of coeval TTG, I-and S-type granites in the Famatinian Belt of the NW Argentina, Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh Earth Sci., 91, 151-168. (Pubitemid 32548356)
108. Parsons, I., W. L. Brown, and J. V. Smith (1999), 40Ar/39Ar thermochronol-ogy using alkali feldspars: Real thermal history or mathematical mirage of microtexture?, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 136, 92-110, doi:10.1007/s004100050526. (Pubitemid 29508952)
109. Pearson D. M., P. Kapp, P. W. Reiners, G. E. Gehrels, M. N. Ducea, A. Pullern, J. E. Otamendi, and R. N. Alonso (2012), Major Miocene exhumation by fault-propagation folding within a metamorphosed, early Paleozoic thrust belt: Northwestern Argentina, Tectonics 31, TC4023 doi:10.1029/2011TC003043.
110. Petrinovic, I. A., J. Mitjavila, J. G. Viramonte, J. Martí, R. Becchio, M. Arnosio, and F. Colombo (1999), Descripción geoquímica y geocrono-lógica de secuencias volcánicas neógenas de Trasarco, en el extremo oriental de la Cadena Volcánica Transversal del Quevar (Noroeste de Argentina), Acta Geol. Hisp., 34, 255-273.
111. Poma, S., S. Quenardelle, V. Litvak, E. B. Maisonnave, and M. Koukharsky (2004), The Sierra de Macon, plutonic expression of the Ordovician magmatic arc, Salta Province, Argentina, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 16, 587-597, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2003.10.002. (Pubitemid 38641284)
112. Quidelleur, X., M. Grove, O. Lovera, T. Harrison, and A. Yin (1997), Thermal evolution and slip history of the Renbu Zedong Thrust, southeastern Tibet, J. Geophys. Res., 102(B2), 2659-2679.
113. Ramos, V. A. (2008), The basement of the central Andes: The Arequipa and related terranes, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 36, 289-324, doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124304. (Pubitemid 351883477)
114. Rapela, C. W., A. J. Toselli, L. Heaman, and J. Saavedra (1990), Granite plutonism of the Sierras Pampeanas; an inner cordilleran Paleozoic arc in the southern Andes, Spec. Pap. Geol. Soc. Am., 241, 77-90.
115. Rapela, C. W., B. Coira, A. Toselli, and J. Saavedra (1992), The lower Paleozoic magmatism of southwestern Gondwana and the evolution of the Famatinian Orogen, Int. Geol. Rev., 34, 1081-1142, doi:10.1080/00206819209465657.
116. Reiners, P. W. (2009), Nonmonotonic thermal histories and contrasting kinetics of multiple thermochronometers, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73, 3612-3629, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.03.038.
117. Reutter, K. J., E. Scheuber, and D. Helmcke (1991), Structural evidence of orogen-parallel strike slip displacements in the Precordillera of northern Chile, Geol. Rundsch., 80(1), 135-153, doi:10.1007/BF01828772.
118. Riller, U., and O. Oncken (2003), Growth of the central Andean Plateau by tectonic segmentation is controlled by the gradient in crustal shortening, J. Geol., 111(3), 367-384, doi:10.1086/373974. (Pubitemid 36893251)
119. Royden, L. (1996), Coupling and decoupling of crust and mantle in convergent orogens: Implications for strain partitioning in the crust, J. Geophys. Res., 101(B8), 17,679-17,705.
120. Salfity, J. A. (1982), Evolución paleogeográfica del Grupo Salta (Cretácico-Eogénico), Argentina, paper presented at Congreso Latinoamaricano de Geología, Asoc. Geol. Argent., Buenos Aires.
121. Salfity, J. A. (1985), Lineamientos transversales al rumbo Andino en el nor-oeste Argentino, paper presented at IV Congreso Geologico Chileno, Asoc. Geol. Chile, Antofagasta, Chile.
122. Salfity, J. A., and R. A. Marquillas (1994), Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Cretaceous-Eocene Salta Group Basin, Argentina, in Cretaceous Tectonics of the Andes, edited by J. A. Salfity, pp. 266-315, Vieweg, Brunswick, Germany.
123. Schildgen, T. F., D. Cosentino, A. Caruso, R. Buchwaldt, C. Yildirim, S. A. Bowring, B. Rojay, H. Echtler, and M. R. Strecker (2012), Surface expression of eastern Mediterranean slab dynamics: Neogene topographic and structural evolution of the southwest margin of the central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey, Tectonics, 31, TC2005, doi:10.1029/2011TC003021.
124. Schoenbohm, L., and M. R. Strecker (2009), Normal faulting along the southern margin of the Puna plateau, northwest Argentina, Tectonics, 28, TC5008, doi:10.1029/2008TC002341.
125. Siks, B. C., and B. K. Horton (2011), Growth and fragmentation of the Andean foreland basin during eastward advance of fold-thrust deformation, Puna plateau and Eastern Cordillera, northern Argentina, Tectonics, 30, TC6017, doi:10.1029/2011TC002944.
126. Sims, J. P., T. R. Ireland, A. Camacho, P. Lyons, P. E. Pieters, R. G. Skirrow, P. G. Stuart-Smith, and R. Miró (1998), U-Pb, Th-Pb and Ar-Ar geochro-nology from the southern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Implications for the Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the western Gondwana margin, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 142, 259-281, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.142.01.13. (Pubitemid 29523676)
127. Springer, M., and A. Förster (1998), Heat-flow density across the central Andean subduction zone, Tectonophysics, 291, 123-139, doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00035-3. (Pubitemid 28482179)
128. Strecker, M. R., R. N. Alonso, B. Bookhagen, B. Carrapa, G. E. Hilley, E. R. Sobel, and M. H. Trauth (2007), Tectonics and climate of the southern central Andes, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 35, 747-787, doi:10.1146/annurev. earth.35.031306.140158. (Pubitemid 46937897)
129. Tassara, A., H.-J. Goetze, S. Schmidt, and R. Hackney (2006), Three-dimensional density model of the Nazca plate and the Andean continental
130. Troëng, B., H. Claure, L. Oliveira, R. Ballón, and G. Walser (1993), Thematic maps of the mineral resources of Bolivia. Tarija and Villazón sheets, Geol. Surv. of Bolivia, La Paz.
131. Turner, J. C. M., and V. Méndez (1975), Geologia del sector oriental de los departamentos de Santa Victoria e Iruya, Provincia de Salta, Republica Argentina. Geology of the eastern regions of Santa Victoria and Iruya, Salta, Argentina, Bol. Acad. Nac. Cienc., 51(1-5), 12-24.
132. Vanderhaeghe, O. (2012), The thermal-mechanical evolution of crustal oro-genic belts at convergent plate boundaries: A reappraisal of the orogenic cycle, J. Geodyn., 56-57, 124-145, doi:10.1016/j.jog.2011.10.004.
133. Viramonte, J. G., S. M. Kay, R. Becchio, M. Escayola, and I. Novitski (1999), Cretaceous rift related magmatism in central-western South America, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 12, 109-121, doi:10.1016/S0895-9811(99)00009-7.
134. Viramonte, J. M., R. A. Becchio, J. G. Viramonte, M. M. Pimentel, and R. D. Martino (2007), Ordovician igneous and metamorphic units in southeastern Puna: New U-Pb and Sm-Nd data and implications for the evolution of northwestern Argentina, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 24, 167-183, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2007.05. 005. (Pubitemid 47364503)
135. Wdowinski, S., and Y. Bock (1994), The evolution of deformation and topography of high elevated plateaus: 2. Application to the central Andes, J. Geophys. Res., 99(B4), 7121-7130, doi:10.1029/93JB02396. (Pubitemid 24427055)
136. Wegmann, M. I., U. Riller, F. D. Hongn, J. Glodny, and O. Oncken (2008), Age and kinematics of ductile deformation in the Cerro Durazno area, NW Argentina: Significance for orogenic processes operating at the western margin of Gondwana during Ordovician-Silurian times, J. South Am. Earth Sci., 26, 78-90, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2007.12.004.
137. Whitman, D., B. L. Isacks, and S. M. Kay (1996), Lithospheric structure and along-strike segmentation of the central Andean Plateau: Seismic Q, magmatism, flexure, topography and tectonics, Tectonophysics, 259, 29-40, doi:10.1016/0040-1951(95)00130-1.
138. Zimmermann, U., and H. Bahlburg (2003), Provenance analysis and tectonic setting of the Ordovician clastic deposits in the southern Puna Basin, NW Argentina, Sedimentology, 50(6), 1079-1104, doi:10.1046/j.1365-3091.2003.00595. x. (Pubitemid 38098200)